Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked company passwords and 30,000 internal Teams messages

• Microsoft confirmed Monday that large amounts of data were mistakenly leaked.
• Researchers provided a link to AI models via GitHub.
• But that accidentally gave full access to a 38TB cloud storage account.

A team of AI researchers at Microsoft mistakenly leaked large amounts of data while trying to share their work, the company confirmed on Monday.

Microsoft said the team was trying to share open-source training data on the software development platform GitHub, as is common behavior in the AI sector.